roleplaying gladiators. awesome.

But what exactly would gladiators roleplay as?

>>But what exactly would gladiators roleplay as?

Free people.

>>2019217
or halflings.

>>2019217


This the mental image is somehow oddly depressing

Clovius, have you seen the new edition of Carcer quod Extraho? My Priest of Zeus can now only throw one thunderbolt a day! Bah!

I'm imagining Marisuas and his companions squatting around the diagram traced into the sandy floor of their holding area.

Roll to see if I'm filing my papers correctly!

>>2019235
I can imagine it now.
"You rolled an XX. Frodoicus the Shortis hits the barbarian scum. Roll for greivous wounding, Lucius."

"May Mars, god of war, allow me to roll high and see the scum slain."

>>2019241
I imagine a log of that game would be one of the most depressing things ever conceieved.

-Brutus, make your roll to barter with the merchant for fresh corn for your store.

-I got a 13, plus five for my mercentile bonus

-Okay, that means you get a new deal for your grain. Looks like you're going to get almost double the profit from this year's harvest.

-Great, I return home to my wife Julia, pat her swollen belly and tell little Julis about my day. Oh, bugger, I'm up next, We'll finish this part of the campaign off tommorow, ok?

-Sure thing.

That was the final entry.

What I find depressing is that the game that was played with this die is forgotten by history.

As to, shall the rest of our hobbies.

>>2019289
i dont want my ancestors to know we played FATAL.

Dammit guys, stop being depressing and start making up games like Legions and Lions.

#dice

Most likely they would have roleplayed as the Ancient Greeks with the wars between the Athenians and the Spartans or some other setting like as the Persians and such.

This is awesome, because the real life would be more GRIMDARK than their setting.

>>2019306
Nobody actually plays FATAL.

Except you. Alone.

Stat me.

>>2019160
where the hell am i gonna get $20,000 in a week?

Lucius Caecilius Iacundus. Expert 3, has ranks in profession (banker), Sense Motive and appraise.

And a motherfucking awesome dog. Goddamn, some of us cried in latin class when Cerberus died.

I'll bet they're setting was loosely based on primitive cultures like our current fantasy RPGs, I guess they would have all kinds of shitty armor crudely made weapons and no aqueducts.

>>2019462
NO AQUEDUCTS
NO HYPOCAUSTS
OPEN FIRES ONLY
FINAL DESTINATION

>>2019475
>OPEN FIRES ONLY
Dear Vesta, that's barbaric!

>>2019462
I'm a level 5 Gaul Skirmisher
My melee weapon is an iron knife, ranged weapon is a francisca

>>2019462
I wonder what the equivalent of futuristic settings looked like to them.

...and I now have an amazing image of cyberpunk with the Roman Pantheon in full swing. Mercurian hackers unite!

>>2019531
>cyberpunk
No, no, no, no, no. The Romans would have Slavepunk. They didn't believe in technology besides for weapons and armor, because slaves worked fine for all uses. Hell, even slaves had slaves.

>>2019555
We need to make a slavepunk campaign setting, STAT. To clarify, though, those were 2 unrelated thoughts.

>>2019555
In Rome, D&D was d20 Modern.

>>2019555
So you usesome kind of divine gift for prophetic visions to micromanage slaves efficiently and thus out-do the slaves of the other guy: this supplants hacking!

>>2019604
It'd be like a warcraft/starcraft skirmish!

>>2019619
MY LIFE FOR CAESAR

>>2019604
Better yet, influence/hypnotism-based. Really charismatic people can subtly convince their enemies' slaves to fuck up without them even knowing it.

>>2019684
or influenceeach other's oracular visions tomake them take bad choices.

>>2019706
Sounds good.

>>2019581
What would slavepunk exactly... mean?

>>2019722
Slave-powered hovercars, dude.

>>2019722
Fuck if I know. Let's find out!

>>2019722
Player Oracles sit back on their dais and mentally influence the actions of their army of slaves, using oracular vision to know which slaves to assign which tasks and/or scrambling the visions of opposing POs. Essentially, oracular vision = ability to mentally interface with computers, the world = cyberspace, gods = strong AI and slaves = processor time or programs. Oracular vision allows them to know how a waveform will collapse, and thus aids advanced quantum computer encryption breaking.

>>2019754
Counts as Jupiter

I use LVII of my slaves to try to block his LX slaves from entering square VI,IX.

-rolls-

I got an MCLXXVII, let me look up what that means and I'll tell you if it hits.

>>2019777
Counts as Juno

>>2019777
Counts as Eris

>>2019809
>>2019811
Hivemind

>>2019809
>>2019811
You can tell who /tg/ has a nerdboner for...

>>2019811
I FUKKEN LOVE PORTAL

>>2019475
I lol'd.

>>2019816
>>2019817

Hivehivemind

>>2019811
>>2019809
So is it Juno or Eris?

>>2019475
You laugh, your crucified.

>>2019885
Eris. She has more fun.

Ok, Pontius Pilate, Biggus Dickus, Naughtius Maximus and I are starting a DXX Modern game, anyone care to join us in the bath house?

...Life of Brian DXX, ftw.

>>2019960
I'd actually make the argument for Juno more readily...Eris' main act was to mess with a bunch of people at once, but Juno's shtick was mostly to fuck with random people out of sheer cruelty.

Bump for slavepunk

>>2020280
Okay, I lack much experience of creating items/classes/rules for anything non-d20, and slavepunk looks to turn out more like ArtIfice than a regular game, unless we turn slaves into an unseen element and have the real-life slaves performing work that changes how the Oracles perceive the world, making them more like conventional class abilities.

In which case, let me reread some of Shadowrun, meditate on and digest Neuromancer, that sorta thing.

Also, things the oracles "see" or create... Futuristic stuff to the ancient roman/greek cultures (We can mix them, it's a *punk setting and thus butchers its historical setting. Hell, we can throw some Sumerian and Egyptian stuff in there!)

Will report back after I've thought a bit.

>>2020347
The key to looking at it is that slaves aren't as much items as assets. Differing features between characters can be your field of expertise in messing with minds...like, for instance, slavemasters who can incite riots vs. ones who can increase production.

Basically, consider this set of comparisons:
>>2019754

>>2020460
All the posts about Slavepunk mechanics or fluff are me, except for the original guy who said "Slavepunk" >>2019555

I'm just tossing ideas around. If this thread survives until morning in britfagland I'll post to it, otherwise I'll start a new one.

>>2020728

Good, I am interested in this game.